In the future, everything will be one, very large thing. This is the time when people of this planet linked themselves together on a planetary scale. There are 15 billion devices wired up to one giant circuit that already exceeds our brains in complexity, and it's doubling every few years. Its total storage is about 600 exabytes. Each time we click a link we train the global mind.

Look at a satellite photograph of the earth at night. This embryonic very large thing has been running continuously for at least three decades. What will it create in the next 30 years?